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Transnational German Studies Workshop Program
Friday May 5
3:00-3:10 ~ Opening Remarks (Kristin Dickinson, UMich)
3:10-5:00 ~ Current Scholarship in the Field
Discussion of Undeutsch, by Fatima El-Tayeb
Saturday May 6
9:30 - 10:30 ~ Panel 1, Nationalism in the 19th Century
Jakob Norberg (Duke): "German Studies and the Nation”
Emily Gauld (UMich): “Herder’s Volk: Literature, Music, and Nation in the 19th Century”
10:30 – 10:45 ~ Break
10:45-11:45 ~ Panel 2, Germany and its Others
Nick Jones (Carolina-Duke): “The Barbaric Language of the Greeks: The Construction of Alterity in Goethe's Iphigenie auf Tauris and Kleist's Penthesilea”
Emma Thomas (UMich): "Bridewealth and European Imaginaries of Commodification."
1:15-2:45 ~ Panel 3, The Politics of Integration
Johanna Schuster-Craig (Michigan State): “Germany’s First Integration Law”
Kristin Dickinson (UMich): “Translating for and against Leitkultur”
Ela Gezen (UMass): "Poetic Empathy, Political Criticism, and Public Mourning: Esther Dischereit’s Klagelieder"
2:45-3:-00 ~ Break
3:00-4:00 ~ Panel 4, Non-normative Identities and the Posthuman
Priscilla Layne (UNC): “We are the Universe: Afrofuturist Interventions in Post-migrant Theater”
Steffen Kaupp (Notre Dame): “Transnationalism and the Queering of German Identity”
4:15 – 6:00 ~ Panel 5, Alternative Paradigms of Belonging
Nilgün Bayraktar (California College of the Arts): “Performing Non-belonging and Displacement: Representing Refugee Experiences in Contemporary Screen Art”
Damani Partridge (UMich): "Filming the Future of Detroit/Filming the Future from Berlin: Noncitizen Perspectives."
Sunday May 7
10:00-11:30 ~ Panel 1, Memory and National Identity in Media and Literature
Domenic DeSocio (UMich): “ ‘Ankommen’ in Deutschland: Refugee Smartphone Applications and the Temporalities of German National Identity."
Karolina Hicke (UMass Amherst): “Multidirectional Memory and Contested Belonging in Olga Grjasnowa’s Der Russe ist einer der Birken liebt”
Beth Anne Dorn (Carolina-Duke): "Immigration, Rejection, and Assimilation: Conversational Choreography in Fassbinder's Katzelmacher.”
12:45-2:15~ Roundtable on Teaching
2:20-2:45 ~ Closing Remarks; Brainstorming for the Future
Friday May 5
3:00-3:10 ~ Opening Remarks (Kristin Dickinson, UMich)
3:10-5:00 ~ Current Scholarship in the Field
Discussion of Undeutsch, by Fatima El-Tayeb
Saturday May 6
9:30 - 10:30 ~ Panel 1, Nationalism in the 19th Century
Jakob Norberg (Duke): "German Studies and the Nation”
Emily Gauld (UMich): “Herder’s Volk: Literature, Music, and Nation in the 19th Century”
10:30 – 10:45 ~ Break
10:45-11:45 ~ Panel 2, Germany and its Others
Nick Jones (Carolina-Duke): “The Barbaric Language of the Greeks: The Construction of Alterity in Goethe's Iphigenie auf Tauris and Kleist's Penthesilea”
Emma Thomas (UMich): "Bridewealth and European Imaginaries of Commodification."
1:15-2:45 ~ Panel 3, The Politics of Integration
Johanna Schuster-Craig (Michigan State): “Germany’s First Integration Law”
Kristin Dickinson (UMich): “Translating for and against Leitkultur”
Ela Gezen (UMass): "Poetic Empathy, Political Criticism, and Public Mourning: Esther Dischereit’s Klagelieder"
2:45-3:-00 ~ Break
3:00-4:00 ~ Panel 4, Non-normative Identities and the Posthuman
Priscilla Layne (UNC): “We are the Universe: Afrofuturist Interventions in Post-migrant Theater”
Steffen Kaupp (Notre Dame): “Transnationalism and the Queering of German Identity”
4:15 – 6:00 ~ Panel 5, Alternative Paradigms of Belonging
Nilgün Bayraktar (California College of the Arts): “Performing Non-belonging and Displacement: Representing Refugee Experiences in Contemporary Screen Art”
Damani Partridge (UMich): "Filming the Future of Detroit/Filming the Future from Berlin: Noncitizen Perspectives."
Sunday May 7
10:00-11:30 ~ Panel 1, Memory and National Identity in Media and Literature
Domenic DeSocio (UMich): “ ‘Ankommen’ in Deutschland: Refugee Smartphone Applications and the Temporalities of German National Identity."
Karolina Hicke (UMass Amherst): “Multidirectional Memory and Contested Belonging in Olga Grjasnowa’s Der Russe ist einer der Birken liebt”
Beth Anne Dorn (Carolina-Duke): "Immigration, Rejection, and Assimilation: Conversational Choreography in Fassbinder's Katzelmacher.”
12:45-2:15~ Roundtable on Teaching
2:20-2:45 ~ Closing Remarks; Brainstorming for the Future
| Building: | Modern Languages Building |
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| Event Type: | Workshop / Seminar |
| Tags: | Discussion, European, German, Interdisciplinary, International, Transnational |
| Source: | Happening @ Michigan from Germanic Languages & Literatures, Rackham Graduate School |
| Upcoming Dates: |
Saturday, May 6, 2017 9:30 AM-6:00 PM
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